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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...keep under the carpet. In spite of that, the summit was clearly a diplomatic triumph for the aging Cuban strongman, because it represented an explicit repudiation of the embargo maintained by eight successive U.S. presidents. The summit's draft declaration in fact contains a strong critique of the Helms-Burton law by which the U.S. seeks to force other countries to uphold its embargo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Havana Hoedown Confronts Both Castro and U.S. | 11/16/1999 | See Source »

...possibility that concerns Seton is the prospect that John A. Burton '01 will try to amend the term-bill legislation...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad and Daniel P. Mosteller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Seton Proposes Term-Bill Fee Hike | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

...Burton wants Seton's legislation to include a five-dollar term bill fee on all undergraduates to fund the operations of the Radcliffe Union of Students...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad and Daniel P. Mosteller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Seton Proposes Term-Bill Fee Hike | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

However, Lewis says he won't approve a term bill proposal with such an amendment, and Seton is worried his legislation will fall with Burton's RUS proposal if the two are passed together, as one bill...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad and Daniel P. Mosteller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Seton Proposes Term-Bill Fee Hike | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

...caught a preview screening of the new Tim Burton movie, Sleepy Hollow, this past week and totally expected a watered-down, commercialized version of the Ichabod Crane anti-fairy tale. After all, the last Tim Burton movie was Mars Attacks, a big-budget indie movie that flopped miserably. What's the chance of studios giving him his way again? There's good news and there's bad news. The good news is that Sleepy Hollow isn't watered down, predictable or commercial at all. Reminiscent of Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands, this is textbook Burton--shadowy visuals, injections of visceral comedy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soman's In the [K]now | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

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